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It is proposed that the amount of annuity or pension arisingout of this fund shall be fixed at X25 per annum. The annuaa subscription of members to be not less than 15s., according t(-the age of the member at the time of his admission; thEamounts of annual payments to be regulated by tables to b(
especially constructed for that purpose.That the following donations, in one sum, shall constitute ! life member-viz., if under twenty-five years of age, £ 10—
twenty-five and under thirty years, £15—thirty and unde]thirty-five years, £ 20-thirty-five and under forty years, £25- forty and under forty-five years, £30—forty-five and underfifty years, .635.Annual subscriptions, if less than 15s., will be received t(
this fund, but although not entitling such contributors to anjfixed pension or annuity therefrom, will nevertheless rendeithem eligible, at the discretion of the board, to receive suchannual provision or support under the foregoing contingencies;as its resources may from time to time permit.
All annual subscriptions to this fund must be paid in ad-- vance, and members neglecting to make their payments when’they become due, shall be subject to the same penalties as arelaid down in rule 16, Annuity branch.
Benevolent .Fund.-This fund is intended chiefly for the pur-pose of granting temporary or permanent relief, under cir-cumstances of peculiar emergency, and it is hoped will be1,.berally contributed to, not only by those members of theabove several professions who possess the means and are de-sirous of ministering to the necessities of their less fortunatebrethren, but that the attention of the public generally, espe-cially of its more wealthy members, will be powerfully’directed to a society possessing advantages and holding outbenefits which few others can offer, and having for its objectthe temporal welfare of a large and important class of society,whose mutual interests all are in a more or less degree con-cerned in, and whose spiritual and bodily avocations exercisedthrough a life of labour and anxiety in promoting the presentand future welfare of mankind, peculiarly entitles them topublic sympathy.With a desire to promote, in the best possible way, the
mutual interest of all the members of the association, it is in-tended that this benevolent fund, as connected with the an-nuity and superannuation departments, shall be applied chieflyto the relief and assistance of those members and their fami-lies, who in the day of their prosperity have been willing to.contribute something towards promoting the comforts of theirpoorer brethren in the hour of need, sickness, or other ad-versity, but that none must anticipate relief, or look forwardto a participation in its benefits, who having once possessed themeans of doing good, shall have withheld the hand of bene-volence from their fellow-labourer, or neglected to availthemselves of those opportunities which the other branches ofthis association more especially hold out, of providing againstthose casualties of life to which they themselves are in a moreor less degree hourly subjected, and also for the future welfareand support of their widows and children at their decease.But whilst it is proposed, that the benefits of this fund
shall be thus chiefly applied, it is by no means intended thatthose shall be altogether excluded who may not have had itin their power to contribute thereto, but that all shall parti-cipate whose circumstances may be of such a nature as torender its extension justifiable and consistent with the objectsontemplated.With a view, therefore, to the most advantageous and
equitable distribution of this fund, it is proposed to regulateit under the following principles :-
1. That the fund be divided into two separate departments—viz., the clerical and medical benevolent funds-that eachbe distinct from the other; the one to be under the exclusivecontrol of a committee, comprising the whole of the directorson the clerical list; the other to be under the control of acommittee of directors on the medical list; the chairman ofthe general board alone being a member of these committees,as being entitled to a casting vote in all matters relating tothe affairs of the society.That one-third of all donations and bequests, (unless ex-
pressed otherwise by the donors or testators,) as well as of allannual subscriptions, shall be set apart as a mutual fund, to beapplied in augmentation, by way of bonus, to the annuitiesunder the annuity branch; and that, in like manner, one-thirdbe also set apart for the benefit of such members as shallhave superannuated under the foregoing provisions. Theremaining one-third to be at the unqualified disposal of thetwo committees, to be applied to such benevolent purposes asshall be considered by them best calculated to promote theobjects of the society generally, preference being always
given to those who shall have, in a more or less degree, contributed to this fund.That should the funds hereafter permit, the committees
shall have the power to grant loans for stated periods, insums not exceeding £50, to members of either branch of theassociation, free of all interest, but upon such approved
security as shall be sanctioned by the chairman of the generalboard.! In submitting this scheme to the consideration of thosewho are most likely to be interested therein, the promotersbeg to observe that they are influenced by no selfish motives,neither is it their desire to enter into competition with otherinstitutions of the day, their sole object being the establish-ment of a society so constructed, that the benefits resultingtherefrom may be rendered as universal as its means mayhereafter permit. Ab
THE MEATUS URINARIUS.To the Editor of THE LANCET.
SIR—Will you kindly permit the following to be insertedin your valuable journal, for the benefit of Mr. J. B. Weir,of Galashiels.
In the fourth part of the second volume of " Fife’s Com-pendium of Anatomy," p. 299, it is stated that " the orifice of.the urethra is placed a little below the glans of the clitoris,and between the two nymphse, and is surrounded by a spongyeminence, which projects at its under part, called by someauthors corpus glandulosum vel glandulae prostates muliebrum." The corpus glandulosum is perforated by lacunae, some of
which are of considerable depth, and discharge a viscid matterround the orifice of the urethra.
" The corpus glandulosum directs the point of the finger tothe orifice of the urethra, in discharging the urine by thecatheter, without the assistance of the eye." -
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In the year 1815, a celebrated lecturer on midwifery gavethe following instructions to his pupils, how to find, by touch,the orifice of the meatus urinarius of the female.Between the labiæ, between the nymphse, below the clitoris,
just at the junction of the os pubis, you will find an elevation,.resembling the half of a raspberry: this is the meatus urina-rius. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
July, 1849. A READER FROM THE BEGINNING.
Medical News.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemenhaving undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma,were admitted members of the college at the meeting of theCourt of Examiners on the 27th ult.:-
ADAlIISON, ROBERT, Durham.EARNSHAW, JOHN, Clitheroe, Lancashire.GEORGE, OWEN WILLIAM, Plascrwn, Pembrokeshire.LEIGH, EDWARD PHILIP, Jamaica.LEWIS, WILLIAM ASTON, Manchester.MACKESY, WILLIAM PERCY PICKARD, Waterford.NEVILLE, EDWARD LEOPARD, Hounslow, Middlesex.ROBOTHAM, JOHN HARRISON, Wilne, Derbyshire.RpDCE, ARTHUR, Fakenham, Norfolk.SAWYER, JOSEPH, Whitehaven, Cumberland.VIVIAN, EDWARD JOHN, Guildford-street, Russell-
square.July 30,1849.
BATEMAN, FREDERICK, Norwich.BLACKFORD, JOHN CROMWELL, Bromsgrove, Worcester-
shire.MILLER, CHARLES MATHIAS, Ecclesfield, near Sheffield.MORGAN, DAVID, Bodwigiad, Breconshire.NASH, THOMAS LLEWELLYN, Dublin.
· PLUMBE, SAMUEL, London.RORIE, JOHN, Plymouth.WEST, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Consumption Hospital,
Brompton.WHITE, THOMAS KYRAN, Threecastle, co. Kilkenny.WILSON, THOMAS, Elverstown, Blessington, co. Kildare.WOOD, JOHN, Bradford, Yorkshire.
APOTHECARIES’ HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passedtheir examination in the science and practice of medicine, andreceived certificates to practise, on Thursday,
July 26,1849.ALLEN, THOMAS, London.ARDEN, ARTHUR OCTAYUS, Beverley, Yorkshire.